Religious Intensity, Evangelical Christianity, and Business Ethics: An Empirical Study
| Autor: | Carlos W. Moore, Joseph A. McKinney, Justin G. Longenecker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Religious commitment
Economics and Econometrics Judaism media_common.quotation_subject Questionnaire Evangelism General Business Management and Accounting Faith Empirical research Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Protestantism Sociology Business and International Management Social science Business ethics Law Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Business Ethics. 55:371-384 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0697 0167-4544 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10551-004-0990-2 |
| Popis: | Research on the relationship between religious commitment and business ethics has produced widely varying results and made the impact of such commitment unclear. This study presents an empirical investigation based on a questionnaire survey of business managers and professionals in the United States yielding a database of 1234 respondents. Respondents evaluated the ethical acceptability of 16 business decisions. Findings varied with the way in which the religion variable was measured. Little relationship between religious commitment and ethical judgment was found when responses were compared on the basis of broad faith categories – Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, other religions, and no religion. However, respondents who indicated that religious interests were of high or moderate importance to them demonstrated a higher level of ethical judgment (less accepting of unethical decisions) than others in their evaluations. Evangelical Christians also showed a higher level of ethical judgment. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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